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by davidgay 1y ago
> ... memory and cpu performance have improved at completely different rates. This is overly simplified. To a first approximation, bandwidth has kept track with CPU performance, and main memory latency is basically unchanged. My 1985 Ami
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by davidgay 1y ago
The quote is referring to fights between people who already have tenure.
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by davidgay 1y ago
> Are 'spelling bee' contests only (or mainly) a USA thing? The French "dictée" is similar, but has you write down a spoken (coherent text). One that usually gets weekly practiced (and graded...) in primary school, bu
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by davidgay 1y ago
> However, in many developed countries today’s pensions are mainly paid for by today’s workers, often through a combination of social contributions and taxes. If one accepts this hypothesis, then raising the retirement age is good for
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by davidgay 1y ago
Also still running, after more than 33 years: mume.org Disclaimer: I used to help run this - my main contribution was an extension language, which started as a Scheme+Forth hybrid (everyone hated that...) and quickly morphed into sort-of-Sc
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by davidgay 1y ago
This description is misleading (as many of them seem to be), because you're only describing the first year. After 5 years of constant expenses, the deductions match the costs. If expenses diminish, deductions exceed costs. -> this i
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by davidgay 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that var ageLookup = new Dictionary<AgeRange, List<Member>>(); foreach (var member in members) { ageLookup.getOrCreate(member.AgeRange, List::new).add(member); } is more readable in the long
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Everything you said is supported by regular image formats. You can adjust white balance of any photo and you think image formats are only limited to 16-bit and sRGB? No - the non-RAW image formats offered were traditionally JPG and 8-b
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Because I know I am definitely guilty of that, I can swear I remember bits from my family's trip to Pompeii when I Was 2 years old, not much but little bits here and there, and only when I was older I noticed that what I remember
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by davidgay 2y ago
> At least we're not stuck with the Roman "inclusive counting" system that included one extra number in ranges* so that e.g. weeks have "8" days French (and likely other Latin languages?) are not quite so lucky.
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by davidgay 2y ago
You can also do OPT "post-completion" of your degree - this also gives your (new) employer some time to apply for a longer-term work visa.
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by davidgay 2y ago
> English has no 'correct' way to be written or spoken, nor does it need one, nor would it benefit from one, therefore, nor should it have one. There may be no 'correct' way, but there are plenty of 'incomprehens
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by davidgay 2y ago
And for useful reference: I was in hospital last year for ~2 weeks, and my insurance was sent a bill for ~$580k. The insurance actually paid $32k. Hospital bills are clearly works of fiction.
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by davidgay 2y ago
The interview process for a place like Microsoft Research is essentially the same as for a faculty position - give a talk on your research, spend the day talking to researchers about your research, their research, convince them you have an
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by davidgay 2y ago
You've clearly never observed the allocation behaviour of a continuation-based compiler (every function call causes a short-lived heap allocation - the heap is the "stack")...
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by davidgay 2y ago
Hmm, guilds were often the institution that controlled a profession, while cartels are usually voluntarily joined. Is that really what you meant?
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by davidgay 2y ago
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-nati... is a pretty good article describing how a Swiss doctor showed experimentally that adding iodine was a cure for goitre and the associated me
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by davidgay 2y ago
Indeed. In other news, the overall pass rates for my (translated into US terms for the first three) middle school, high school, university and post-graduate degree were all approximately 50%. So this doesn't seem particularly bad.
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by davidgay 2y ago
Or, just maybe, those stories about Scandinavia are a fig-leaf to justify discrimination. There's clear country-level differences in proportions of engineers(+scientists) in EU countries: https://www.trendingtopics.eu/b
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Hell, England has not even forgotten about the Norman conquest of 1066. I feel that's overstating it a bit. But my mother (English) was definitely brought up in a context that had not forgotten about Napoleon - Napoleon was viewed
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by davidgay 2y ago
You're moving the goal posts to try and tar your opponents with the "communist" brush. The Soviet definition of "silencing dissent" was far more extreme and violent (prison, death) than what the grandparent's c
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by davidgay 2y ago
Disposable income is measured after housing expenses.
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by davidgay 2y ago
Re arsenic poisoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus#:~:text=In%20the%20... .
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by davidgay 2y ago
The Treaty of Rome is 1957, so those are strange dates to select…
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by davidgay 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris
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by davidgay 2y ago
Well my regular accent just confuses it, though it did think it was French when I put on my "fake" French accent at least... This is arguably somewhat aligned with the usual reaction which goes 50/50 between "English acc
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by davidgay 2y ago
Hmm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights ? [Not that I'd take this as having any new impact on the current situation, but...]
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by davidgay 2y ago
Perspective depends on distance to subject only. Focal length decides framing. They get confused, because one tends to / has to adjust one's position to obtain the framing one wants given one's focal length choices...
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by davidgay 2y ago
CCD or CMOS sensors count photons. They presumably have some natural frequency response curve, but the actual colour discrimination comes from the filters (usually some flavours of RGB, but has been other choices too). It's those filte
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by davidgay 2y ago
> That's a small example, limited to very small geography, and is really an example of power struggle than of different groups autonomously governing themselves. Definitely a small geography, and, yes, a solution to a power struggle

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